David Garnett

Garnett, David

Born Mar. 9, 1892, in Brighton. English author. Son of the critic E. Garnett and the translator C. Garnett.

Garnett’s first novellas, Lady Into Fox (1923; Russian translation, 1924) and A Man in the Zoo (1924; Russian translation, 1925), combine fantasy and a satirical portrayal of bourgeois reality. In the novel The Sailor’s Return (1925; Russian translation, 1926; another Russian translation, 1927, was entitled Black Wife), race prejudice is exposed. In the novels No Love (1929), The Grasshoppers Come (1931), A Rabbit in the Air (1932), and War in the Air (1941), social themes are more muted. He has written an autobiographical trilogy, The Golden Echo (vols. 1-3, 1953-62).

Prosecutor David Garnett directed Judge Benson to an album of photographs taken by investigators which showed effectively a "'home industry" with a dining table set up for the packaging and posting of orders received over the internet.

Did David Garnett, long time homosexual lover of Duncan Grant, really marry Angelica the daughter of Grant's exploration of heterosexuality with Vanessa Bell, who she pretended was the child of Clive Bell her ex-husband who lived with them?

The topics covered include Townsend Warner's sense of place, her historical fiction, her correspondence with David Garnett, the compositional genetics of the Kingdom of Elfin, and the politics of the English pastoral.

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